Social dictatorship

Dictatorial leadership of social groupings, involving minority control or dictatorship of the majority, may be ethnic, religious, linguistic, ideological, professional or cross-cultural in character. Social dictatorship may lead ultimately to political dictatorship if the group in question is a predominant national community. It may lead to social conflict and disintegration.

In some ex-colonial and pluralistic societies, a class system and remnants of colonialism help maintain minority control. Effective control may be attained illegally by minority terrorist campaigns, facilitated by modern sophisticated weaponry.

1. Racism
2. Elitism
3. Dictatorship
4. Colonialism

1. Single party democracies
2. Disruptive religious fundamentalism

1. Social injustice
2. Social conflict
3. Segregation
4. Religious conflict
5. Racial conflict
6. Political repression
7. Political dictatorship
8. Denial of the right of trade union association
9. Class conflict

1. Revolutionary communism
2. Militarism
3. Class consciousness

1. Decline in civic participation

1. Majority rule mindset

1. Social fragmentation through political pluralism
2. Dictatorship of the majority

1. Overthrowing social dictatorship
2. Authenticating social dictatorship

1. Unsociable
2. Self-control
3. Dictatorship